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Sanitary Works Performed during the Quarter ended
28th December, 1878.
The following return shows the amount of work done by the Sanitary
Inspectors during the Quarter ended 28th Dec., 1878:—
Number of inspections of houses as shown in the official returns 3026
Houses specially visited 260
Houses specially re-visited 910
Preliminary notices served, such notices embracing 338 premises 221
Compulsory orders issued, embracing 101 premises 57
Summonses heard at Police Courts, under Sanitary Act 0
,, under Act for the prevention of Adulteration of Food, &c. 0
Cellars used as dwellings discontinued for such use 2
Cases of overcrowding and indecent occupation abated 4
Houses in which rooms or passages have been whitewashed 143
Rooms disinfected with sulphurous-acid gas, after the occurrence of
small-pox, fever, and scarlet-fever therein 43
Articles disinfected in rooms, consisting of beds, bedding, clothing, &c. 230
Yards of houses paved, or the pavement repaired 74
Drains in houses improved 41
Dust-bins provided 8
Privies lime-washed, cleansed and repaired 141
Water supply provided or improved 21
Nuisances from dung, and other offensive matter removed 27
Area gratings, cellar flaps, &c., repaired 0
Animals kept so as to be a nuisance removed 7
Cesspools abolished 0
ANNUAL REPORT.
In presenting to you this my Twenty-third Annual Report for the year
ended 28th December, 1878, I may observe that it forms a part of the 90th
Quarterly Report which, with the addition of a few Special Reports, including
one on the Cholera of 1866, all of which have been printed by order of'
your Board, will form three volumes, one of which will comprise the several
Special Reports. I trust that the index which I hare prepared will be
found useful, when bound up with the reports, to those members who may
feel interested in looking over the amount of work which has been performed